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If you’ve ever wondered how you instantly get Instagram ads for some products you were talking about on WhatsApp, watch this video till the end to understand how WhatsApp might be ‘stealing’ your data to give you ‘targeted ads’.

WhatsApp’s ‘take it or leave it’ privacy policy that users were forced to accept in 2021 gave the messaging platform permission to share users’ personal data with other Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The Supreme Court of India said this amounts to ‘playing’ with the Right to Privacy of Indians, questioning how the platform is monetizing people’s daily behaviors without them knowing.

In strongly worded observations, Chief Justice Surya Kant said, “What do you mean by opt out? Then opt out is you opt out of the country. You withdraw your facilities from here.”, adding that users are forced to be on WhatsApp despite privacy concerns because the platform has created a monopoly.

The observations were made while the court was hearing Meta’s challenging the NCLAT judgment that upheld a ₹213 crore penalty imposed on WhatsApp by the Competition Commission of India.